2016! Reeling from The Shock of the New, Igloo’s Wooze-slinger Alan Lockett (aka Mist-maxer albient) is moved to review and renew (or take refuge, depending […]
Tag: Ambient
x.y.r. :: Mental Journey To B.C. (Not Not Fun)
Vladimir Karpov floats fetid Formanta-mini (‘vintage Soviet keytar‘) loops and neo-vaporwave wibble over soft primitivist machine rhythms backlit with a mezzotint of remote insect drone […]
T e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 :: 神秘的情人 “Mysterious Lover” (Tokyo Exchange)
Crisp, tranquil and alluring, this album is a must for those seeking escapism into a realm of limitless magic and mysterious love. Anonymous deep ambient […]
Tobias Hellkvist :: Pause (Dragon’s Eye)
Pause, Tobias Hellkvist’s first for Dragon’s Eye, sees the Swedish sound designer rummage through his archives and dig out a more minimalist work of a decade’s […]
Jonathan Kawchuk :: North (Eilean Rec.)
North is true, a subtle combination of acoustic and electronic instruments, skeletal and essential—no more than what you need to make it through. A brief collection […]
Lunar Abyss & Uhushuhu :: Double review (Zhelezobeton)
Double review for Lunar Abyss and Uhushuhu. Aikana Uni by Lunar Abyss Lunar Abyss :: Aikana Uni (Zhelezobeton) A forest, boisterously Amazonian, at night, on a […]
Stefan Christoff & Nick Schofield :: Rêves Sonores à Montréal (Howl! Arts)
A thoughtful sonic map of moments in the city, each just two, three, four minutes long. Over many decades, Montréal has gone from being a provincial […]
Chris Weeks :: Trip (Odd John) / The Cloud (Self-Released)
Weeks has pursued a predilection for exploration of the floating and psychic vibrations of space-scapes, tranches of droning chord continua and brooding bass frequencies dwelt on, when […]
Der Noir :: Blue (Love Blast/Subsound)
Blue depicts that line between elation and melancholy, expanding the boundary dividing these emotions to produce a superb piece of electronics. I first came across […]
William Basinski & Richard Chartier :: Divertissment (Important)
William Basinski & Richard Chartier’s signature styles mesh, coupling across an indeterminate void of shortwave signal and electronic noise filtered against and through each other. Important […]
Jean-Claude Éloy :: Le minuit de la foi / The Midnight of The Faith (Hors Territoire)
Eloy proffers an array of dampened, eerie sounds, like a great digestive system. The belly of the beast? Although arising only momentarily, the denouement almost […]

















